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CHC Shota Imanaga
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
2025 Projected Value: $25
Based on 10-team NL-only league

Player Stats      Daily Log
Year W L Sv Hold IP H BB SO ER ERA WHIP Rate
2025 proj 15 3 0 0 173.0 149 28 174 56 2.91 1.023 76.7
2024 15 3 0 0 173.3 149 28 174 56 2.91 1.021 92.3

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2/09/25 Perfect trade Cubs must make during 2025 Spring Training. With their pitchers and catchers already in camp, the 2025 spring training period has begun for the Chicago Cubs. Speculation has already begun whether Japanese ace Shota Imanaga will pitch during the Tokyo Series next month. Entering their skipper's second season at the helm, Chicago will look to make it back to the postseason this year. President of baseball operations Jed Hoyer is now in the last year of his contract.
Source: https://clutchpoints.com/perfect-trade-cubs-must-m...
2/04/25 Chicago Cubs Know Which Dodgers Pitching Star They Won't Face in Japan. The Chicago Cubs will head to Tokyo next month to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the regular season in the Japan Series on March 18-19. The series will bring two of Japanese baseball's biggest stars back home — Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga and Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani.
Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/cubs/news/chicago-cubs-know...
1/10/25 Cubs predicted to nab All-Star with 2.17 ERA in blockbuster free-agent signing. The Chicago Cubs' pitching staff may have some solid pieces, but it's far from a finished product. Shota Imanaga, Justin Steele, and Jameson Taillon figure to anchor the rotation, while Porter Hodge and Tyson Miller form the core of an intriguing bullpen. What if the Cubs could get a pitcher in free agency for a relatively low price who could plug either hole depending on things break? Philadelphia Phillies 2024 All-Star Jeff Hoffman is now a free agent, and it's been widely speculated that the team that gets him could move him back into the starting rotation, where he started his career with the Colorado Rockies.
Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/chicago-cubs/n...
12/09/24 Should Sasaki join Cubs? Emanuel, a fan of the team and ambassador to Japan, is being diplomatic.

TOKYO (AP) — It was a simple question. During a news conference Monday at the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga was asked what he'd say to countryman Roki Sasaki to convince him to join his team.

Sasaki will be moving from Japan next season to join an MLB team, the most sought-after pitcher in this season's free agency. The Cubs are among a half-dozen teams seen as his likely landing spot.

Rahm Emanuel, the United States ambassador to Japan, was sitting at a table next to Imanaga. Sensing a moment for diplomacy, he jumped in to keep Imanaga from, perhaps, an uncomfortable reply.

“I know the world’s dying to know and they’re just going to keep guessing,” Emanuel said. “I’m going to be his (Imanaga's) attorney right now. He's not answering that question. I’m going to be his agent. Won’t happen. I’ll pull the plug on his microphone.”

Emanuel was joking about the microphone. But his loyalties are clear.

He's a Cubs fan. He's from Chicago and was the mayor in 2016 when the Cubs won their first World Series in more than a century. And, as he noted Monday, he represented the Wrigley Field area when he was in Congress.

“It’s not really fair to put another player that plays for the Cubs on the spot to answer that question,” Emanuel said as Imanaga sat quietly to his right.

Imanaga was invited to the embassy to promote the U.S. Global Entry system — a way for travelers to get quicker clearance on arrival — with Japan the 18th country to join. Imanaga was the ceremonial-first-Japanese to register. He also wears No. 18 for the Cubs.

With the change in American presidential administrations, Emanuel's time as ambassador is almost over. In his present job he said he “can't just represent the Chicago...


Source: https://www.chron.com/sports/article/should-sasaki...
12/09/24 Should Sasaki join Cubs? Emanuel, a fan of the team and ambassador to Japan, is being diplomatic. During a news conference Monday at the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga was asked what he'd say to countryman Roki Sasaki to convince him to join his team. Sasaki will be moving from Japan next season to join an MLB team, the most sought-after pitcher in this season's free agency. The Cubs are among a half-dozen teams seen as his likely landing spot.
Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/sasaki-join-cubs-emanuel-...

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